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Henry Robert
Mason
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Boyd Family
Mason Family |
Born: |
20.6.1892 at 27 Leighton Rd, Tranmere
"The Mason family lived all
along Leighton Road and around there..
John and their lot lived at number 7.
Others
at Number 1.
All the houses in Leighton Rd have been
knocked down" |
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Parents: |
Robert Mason
(b. 1868) Mary Emma
(or Ellen on Baptism record)) Barnes (b.c1872) |
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Married: |
1913 to
Annie Warburton
(Register at Wirral
BW/85/161) |
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Children: |
Edith,
Annie,
Gladys,
Maisie,
Evelyn,
Harry |
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Occupation: |
Coal heaver /
Dock Labourer. His father? (grandfather
Hambleton Mason) had the contract
on the Isle of Man. Henry worked with him on
the boats until the contract ran out.(NB
Boats were changed to oil burners) Hambleton Mason was a waterman. |
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Died: |
2.5.1936 Age 44 -
Buried at Landican Cemetery, Arrowe Park (NB
Some trees have June, 1935) |
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Siblings: |
Henry was one of 14 children (some died at
birth) |
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Hambleton
(1891 -1917) |
Married:
Kathleen Donovan in 1915. Killed in WWI,
1917. His
name is on
Hamilton Square Memorial.
Also at
Tyne Cot Cemetery, France.
Daughter,
Kathleen, born in 1916. |
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Henry Robert
(1892 - 1936) |
Children:
Edith, Anne,
Gladys.
Maisie,
Evelyn,
Henry
(Hal) |
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Margaret (Maggie)
(1893) |
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Robert (1895) |
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Samuel (1899) |
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Charles (1900) |
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John (1902 - 1967) - a
boilermaker for Lairds shipping company. He
built a bunker for the air raids out of
ship's steel under the stairs |
Children: |
Margaret, William, John,
Hambleton
b. 28.5.1925,
(Hambleton's children:
Iain
b.1958 & Jennifer (1954-2007) |
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Mary (May?) (1906 |
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Lily
(1910) |
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George (1911) |
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Edith
(1913 - 1919) |
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William
(1916) |
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Douglas Haig (1916) |
Born on Robert's
21st birthday. Robert chose the name in
honour of general Douglas Haig, WWI.
Baptised at St Catherine's Church, Higher
Tranmere |
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Was there
an Ernest? |
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Photo Above: Henry Robert Mason
Gladys,
Evelyn, Maisie
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(Maybe taken around 1930) |
Information from Mum
(Gladys
Mason)
Brothers:
Robert, Ernest, Hambleton, (killed in WWI - his name is on the
Cenotaph in Hamilton
Square, Birkenhead), Douglas
Sisters: Maggie, May, Lilly (lived in Leighton Road, Tranmere)
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